Dahr Jamail

“The story of the many oppressed peoples of the world is rarely recorded by the few who oppress. We are taught that the truth is objective fact as written down by the conquerors.”
― Dahr Jamail, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq

“Despite being on the front lines, Florida’s Republican governor Rick Scott is a climate disruption denier. In fact, he prohibits any state employee from publicly uttering, or writing in any state documents, the words “climate change.”1 He and the rest of the deniers leave Kirtman vexed. “I honestly don’t understand it. Imagine you have heart disease and ninety-five of one hundred doctors tell you that you have heart disease and need to treat it. But the podiatrist and the eye doctor tell you maybe you’re okay if you keep your fingers crossed and you’ll be fine so don’t do anything. Are those the ones we want to believe? I wish there wasn’t climate change…. I have plenty of scientific problems to work on. I can’t get my head around, culturally, why this has become such a strange conversation”
― Dahr Jamail, The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption